Benedict J.L. Rowlett is Associate Professor in the Academy of Language and Culture at Hong Kong Baptist University.Rodrigo Borba is Associate Professor and Director of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Programme in Applied Linguistics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

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• ContentsList of FiguresNotes on contributors1 Speaking of sex work: Setting a research agendaBENEDICT J. L. ROWLETT AND RODRIGO BORBA2 ‘Why do you think a woman can’t enjoy sex as much as a man can?’: Discourses of women’s sexual desire, pleasure and agency in an online sex work forumHOLLIE MCILHONE, ROBERT LAWSON, MATT GEE AND PELHAM CARTER3 The pleasure of pleasing: a corpus-assisted small stories approach to male clients’ affective identity constructions of heterosexual desire in PunterNet reviewsSAGREDOS CHRISTOS4 ‘I’m not a faggot, I’m a man’: How male sex workers doing masculinity talking sexCIRUS RINALDI, MARCO BACIO AND RICCARDO CALDARERA5 Polyvalent attribution and the discursive construction of Blackwomen’s sexual labor in The BoondocksDEANDRE MILES-HERCULES AND MARIAH WEBBER6 ‘Good evening you sex-hungry crowd!’: Discursive-corporeal performances and strategies of a black male sex worker on X/TwitterGLENDA CRISTINA VALIM DE MELO7 The narratives she lives by: Identity, intersection and agency in the many roles of a Filipina sex worker in Hong KongBENEDICT J. L. ROWLETT AND JASON POLLEY8 Sissy hypno in a trans-affirming register: Shifting semiotics of pornography onlineMAUREEN KOSSE AND KIRA HALL9 Computable desires: Platformed sex work and the datafication of intimacyEDUARDO MARTINS10 Resisting discrimination against sex work/ers: A Critical Discourse Analysis of comments on YouTubeEVELIN NIKOLOVA11 Sex workers’ place of enunciation: A Materialist Discourse Analytical approachMARIA FERNANDA MOREIRA, KARINE DE MEDEIROS RIBEIRO AND LAURO BALDINI12 Hyperbole for advocacy: Stereotypical and subversive sex work in Naty Menstrual’s writingJOSE ANTONIO JÓDAR-SÁNCHEZ13 The dynamics of agency in sex work: Discursive constructions of violence in transnational contextsJILL MCCRACKEN AND RAN HU14 ‘Foreign, illegal prostitutes’ and ‘New Zealand working girls’: Sex workers as villains and victims in media discourseMATILDA NEYLAND15 ‘I am not a victim of anything’: Minors identified as victims of human trafficking in ItalyTRINE MYGIND KORSBYIndex

Benedict J.L. Rowlett is Associate Professor in the Academy of Language and Culture at Hong Kong Baptist University.Rodrigo Borba is Associate Professor and Director of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Programme in Applied Linguistics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

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• ContentsList of FiguresNotes on contributors1 Speaking of sex work: Setting a research agendaBENEDICT J. L. ROWLETT AND RODRIGO BORBA2 ‘Why do you think a woman can’t enjoy sex as much as a man can?’: Discourses of women’s sexual desire, pleasure and agency in an online sex work forumHOLLIE MCILHONE, ROBERT LAWSON, MATT GEE AND PELHAM CARTER3 The pleasure of pleasing: a corpus-assisted small stories approach to male clients’ affective identity constructions of heterosexual desire in PunterNet reviewsSAGREDOS CHRISTOS4 ‘I’m not a faggot, I’m a man’: How male sex workers doing masculinity talking sexCIRUS RINALDI, MARCO BACIO AND RICCARDO CALDARERA5 Polyvalent attribution and the discursive construction of Blackwomen’s sexual labor in The BoondocksDEANDRE MILES-HERCULES AND MARIAH WEBBER6 ‘Good evening you sex-hungry crowd!’: Discursive-corporeal performances and strategies of a black male sex worker on X/TwitterGLENDA CRISTINA VALIM DE MELO7 The narratives she lives by: Identity, intersection and agency in the many roles of a Filipina sex worker in Hong KongBENEDICT J. L. ROWLETT AND JASON POLLEY8 Sissy hypno in a trans-affirming register: Shifting semiotics of pornography onlineMAUREEN KOSSE AND KIRA HALL9 Computable desires: Platformed sex work and the datafication of intimacyEDUARDO MARTINS10 Resisting discrimination against sex work/ers: A Critical Discourse Analysis of comments on YouTubeEVELIN NIKOLOVA11 Sex workers’ place of enunciation: A Materialist Discourse Analytical approachMARIA FERNANDA MOREIRA, KARINE DE MEDEIROS RIBEIRO AND LAURO BALDINI12 Hyperbole for advocacy: Stereotypical and subversive sex work in Naty Menstrual’s writingJOSE ANTONIO JÓDAR-SÁNCHEZ13 The dynamics of agency in sex work: Discursive constructions of violence in transnational contextsJILL MCCRACKEN AND RAN HU14 ‘Foreign, illegal prostitutes’ and ‘New Zealand working girls’: Sex workers as villains and victims in media discourseMATILDA NEYLAND15 ‘I am not a victim of anything’: Minors identified as victims of human trafficking in ItalyTRINE MYGIND KORSBYIndex

Benedict J.L. Rowlett is Associate Professor in the Academy of Language and Culture at Hong Kong Baptist University.Rodrigo Borba is Associate Professor and Director of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Programme in Applied Linguistics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

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• ContentsList of FiguresNotes on contributors1 Speaking of sex work: Setting a research agendaBENEDICT J. L. ROWLETT AND RODRIGO BORBA2 ‘Why do you think a woman can’t enjoy sex as much as a man can?’: Discourses of women’s sexual desire, pleasure and agency in an online sex work forumHOLLIE MCILHONE, ROBERT LAWSON, MATT GEE AND PELHAM CARTER3 The pleasure of pleasing: a corpus-assisted small stories approach to male clients’ affective identity constructions of heterosexual desire in PunterNet reviewsSAGREDOS CHRISTOS4 ‘I’m not a faggot, I’m a man’: How male sex workers doing masculinity talking sexCIRUS RINALDI, MARCO BACIO AND RICCARDO CALDARERA5 Polyvalent attribution and the discursive construction of Blackwomen’s sexual labor in The BoondocksDEANDRE MILES-HERCULES AND MARIAH WEBBER6 ‘Good evening you sex-hungry crowd!’: Discursive-corporeal performances and strategies of a black male sex worker on X/TwitterGLENDA CRISTINA VALIM DE MELO7 The narratives she lives by: Identity, intersection and agency in the many roles of a Filipina sex worker in Hong KongBENEDICT J. L. ROWLETT AND JASON POLLEY8 Sissy hypno in a trans-affirming register: Shifting semiotics of pornography onlineMAUREEN KOSSE AND KIRA HALL9 Computable desires: Platformed sex work and the datafication of intimacyEDUARDO MARTINS10 Resisting discrimination against sex work/ers: A Critical Discourse Analysis of comments on YouTubeEVELIN NIKOLOVA11 Sex workers’ place of enunciation: A Materialist Discourse Analytical approachMARIA FERNANDA MOREIRA, KARINE DE MEDEIROS RIBEIRO AND LAURO BALDINI12 Hyperbole for advocacy: Stereotypical and subversive sex work in Naty Menstrual’s writingJOSE ANTONIO JÓDAR-SÁNCHEZ13 The dynamics of agency in sex work: Discursive constructions of violence in transnational contextsJILL MCCRACKEN AND RAN HU14 ‘Foreign, illegal prostitutes’ and ‘New Zealand working girls’: Sex workers as villains and victims in media discourseMATILDA NEYLAND15 ‘I am not a victim of anything’: Minors identified as victims of human trafficking in ItalyTRINE MYGIND KORSBYIndex